"Do we love Sean Hannity, by the way?" Trump began on a positive note. "I love him."

"But here's the only part," the president continued. "He puts up all these losers that say horrible things – I've got to talk to him– one after another. 'Donald Trump, he's lost it up here.' You know, it is pretty tough. I stand up here giving speeches for an hour and a half – many times without notes – and then they say, 'he's lost it.' And yet we have 25,000 people showing up to speeches."

"And, by the way, look at all the fake news back there," Trump added.

Trump's rare rebuke of Hannity seems to suggest that even his close relationship with the conservative host has its limits.

As Salon's Joseph Neese previously wrote, Trump and the Fox News star "frequently partake in pillow talk," and their "not-so-secret bromance is reportedly maintained by virtue of late-night phone calls, which routinely hit the White House switchboard after Hannity's 9 p.m. ET broadcast wraps. Albeit the duo is said to be be known to chat 'multiple' times a day."